Steve, Natasha, Rhodey, Bruce, Thor, and Carol are in the living room in the Avengers headquarters in upstate New York, ready to try and find Thanos a few weeks after the snap made half of all life disappear.

Bruce asked, "Even if we do find Thanos, how can we be sure the same thing won't happen again?"

"Because this time you have me," Carol said confidently.

"No offense," Rhodey explained, "but everyone here is about that superhero life. Where exactly have you been this whole time?"

Carol said, "There are a lot of other planets out there, and unfortunately didn't have you guys."

"But," Steve asked calmly, "what exactly have you been doing throughout the galaxy? Thanos has been collecting the infinity stones for nearly a decade across the universe taking out planets left and right. You didn't hear about that in your travels? How did you never meet him or know what was going on and try to stop him at least once?"

Carol looked around the room nervously and asked, "Is that a personal attack or...?"

Completely dumbfounded, Steve said, "Why don't I just ask the one question on everyone's minds here? How long have you been a superhero?"

"Since 1995," she replied, "I'm the first Avenger according to Nick Fury."

Steve scoffed and said, "That's not right. I've been Captain America since 1942."

"Are you being condescending to me because I'm a woman and you're a man?" Carol asked, clearly offended.

"What?" Steve asked as he looked at everyone else in disbelief of her question.

"No," Rhodey explained, "he's talking to you like that because you're waltzing in here like you own the place and we don't even know you. Everyone's been here for years trying to make the world and therefore the galaxy a better place."

Thor stood up and said, "If we're going on about who's been doing this the longest and who's 'the first avenger' I believe I win. I've been Thor, God of Thunder, son of Odin, for hundreds of years."

"How old are you?" Carol asked.

"Well," he said, "it's actually unclear since I've said that I'm 1,500 years old but I'm about the same age as Loki and he's not even 1,000 yet since that's when we beat the Frost Giants and adopted him from Laufy. I'm centuries old, okay? Also, I too have been traveling around the galaxy learning about the infinity stones and Thanos for many years now and I never came across you in my travels once. What have you been doing since 1995?"

Carol answered, "I've been collecting Skrulls and finding them a new home."

"That took around 25 years?" Natasha asked.

"Yes," Carol said nervously, "yeah. Maybe. My movie didn't really elaborate on that."

Natasha said hastily, "Wait a minute, you got a movie before me?"

Steve asked, "Are you okay, Romanoff?"

"No," she said sadly, "it's not like I've been helping people for a decade now or anything and have merely been a love interest for so many men but none of those relationships ever go anywhere for some reason. I mean, why did I go after the Hulk of all people? It's not like I deserve my own origin movie or want love that lasts longer than a single movie. Nope, not at all. And since you got one and we don't even know you, can I ask, what exactly did your movie explain?"

"How Fury lost his eye," she replied, "do you guys know? Did he ever tell you?"

Steve explained, "Well yeah, he said the last time he trusted someone he lost an eye and now he has trouble trusting people."

Carol snorted and said, "Yeah okay. We can go with that."

"How'd he lose it?" Bruce asked.

"A cat scratched it," she said calmly.

"A what did what?" Rhodey asked, "That's it?"

"To be fair," she continued, "it's an alien cat that did it."

Natasha asked, "How alien?"

Carol explained, "It looks exactly like a human cat and behaves exactly like human cats behave except when it opens it's mouth huge octopus-like tentacles come out and can swallow people whole!" She gestured a big chomping motion with her arms.

Everyone else stared at each other in horror. Rhodey finally asked, "And he only lost an eye to that thing?"

Goose walked up behind Carol and rubbed against her leg as she replied, "Yeah." She bent over and picked him up. "This is Goose, my alien cat that took Nick Fury's eye that's actually a Flerkin. Want to pet him?"

"No!" Steve said backing away, "If that thing can eat people I don't want it anywhere near me!"

"Awe come on," Carol begged, "he's really nice most of the time."

"If you leave that thing outside you can help us get Thanos," Steve said hastily.

"Yay!" Carol said, "Okay, sorry Goose you have to stay outside while I'm here." She walked away with him still in her arms.